The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-10
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100 years old next March.
ALBANY has a fund fordigabled fire.
men amounting to $4,000,
A POUGHKEEPStE youngster ate
three dozen bananas on a wager.
DULUTH claims population OF So
600 according to its new city directory.
The tower system ofelectric lighting
Is shortly to be tried in New Orleans.
ONE person is drowned for every 1929
Killed on land, according to statistics.
Two hundred and thirty-five rail-
road companies have offices in New
York.
The Post Office Department does
not recognize the title of "Postmist-
ress."
EDWARD HARRlGAS's professional de-
but was madein 1881 with Campbell's
MINISTRIES.
HANDWRITING on the wall says this
is the height of the season at all sea-
side resorts.
MISS DELLA BECK, OF Apollo, Pa,
weighs 4O3 pounds. She is only SIX.
teen years old.
Two watering place hotels have been
already closed because OF detective
sanitary system.
LEBANON, Pa, has two brothes who
are horse thieves at the age OF thirteen
and fifteen years.
To come home to America with a
London social reputation is now the
fashionable thing.
HUNDREDS of titled Europeans are
booked to arrive in this country dur
ing the autumn.
NOBODY suffers from the heat quite
as much as the tight-laCed girl and wo-
man OF the period.
THERE IS lar more cruelty to ami
mails IN the country than is ever to be
observed in the city.
A NEWPORT dinner party has all the
tormality and ceremony of the fash.
lonable feast in town.
KANSAS has q new drink called
"clarique." It's pedigree is unknown,
but 1T cures snake bites.
BATHING at Manhattan Beach is
made unpleasant by the dumping
scOws Lying off shore"
THE valuation Of Scott County,
This year it is 100000.
JOSEPH WATSON, Huntington, Pa,
has hickory rocking chair that has
been in use for lis years.
WASHINGTON is the city of bicycles.
It's smooth streets make it the best
"riding town" in the world.
ACCORDING to the New York Herald,
Il
the other world and Boston.
The boys of Portchester, n Y,
have base ball ground provided for
them at the expense OF the village.
PENNSYLVANIA will have four state
tickets in the field this year, Repubi-
can, Democratic, Prohibition and La
Dor.
A HGGHAfORE ID. t. man, who fears
cyclones, has anchored his house to
the earth with long, half-inch iron
rods.
Il SALMON weighing seventeen pounds
was shot in the Upper Sacramento
River, one half mile from Mott, while
jumping rifle.
THE California Legislature apprOpria-
ted the sum Of 81 800, 900 tor school
purposes, which is 100000 more
than any previous year.
A JEWELER at Lowell, Mass, has dem
onstrated his originality by stealing
electricity from his telephone and us
ing it to run light machinery.
MANUEL BARRIANT and wife Malta
moras, Mexico, recently celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of their wed
ding. The husband is 1O2 and the
wife 90.
A PATENT medicine man covered
telegraph poles in Carthage, n. Y,
with handbills. Then he had to wash
them all off, and pay SO fine to the
village besides.
The city of Smyrna, in Asia Minor,
is celebrated for its beautiful women,
the descendants of Europeans who
have intermarried with Greek and
Jewish women.
A MAN entered the Verona On. "
Post Office and timidly asked for a
postal card, saying that che had new
er used one OF them things, but would
risk 1t for once anyway"
THE Legislature OF Tennessee having
decreed in favor of the submission OF
a prohibition amendment to the peo
pie, Gov. Taylor fixes the election
day for September 90.
In the English-Australin colonies
there are not only more males than
females bnt the tendency seems to be IN
the direction OF increasing the dlspro-
portion between the sexes.
ALABAMA has prohibited liquor sell
mo, q rt n -
The Senate's vote in favor OF submit
ting constitutional prohibition
amendment to the people was 26 to l.
MARX STEVENS, the Michigan In
dian agent, has been authorized to
receive propositions from towns that
would like to become the seat of an
industrial school for young Indians.
THE lowest sound recognized in mu-
sic has 80 vibrations in q second. The
highest c, ninth octave), IS, 1884 per
second. Vibrations may be heard be-
low and considerably above these fig
ures.
THE Presbyterian Sabbath-school
in the city of Damascus is attended
by $50 children, aud the day school
by 730. Between four and tive hun
bred natives attend the Sunday ser
vices.
SAN FRANCIsCo's historic "Sand Lot"
is to be no more. By order OF the
supervisors Of the city it has been
sown with clover. Kearney is the
proprietor OF q peaceful intellige nee
office.
A WOMAN OF Bay Shore Long Island,
who killed her child by giving it too
much paregoric, has been exonerated
by a coroner's Jury on the ground
that she administered the drug ignOr
antly.
The Troy Electric Light Company
is having wagon made for special
service at fires. 1t will be provided
with apparatus to cut the wires when
ever, they endanger the service OF the
tiremen.
RUTGERS College, with view to
raise the value OF honorary degrees,